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Joy Parr FRSC (born 1949) [1] is a Canadian historian. Parr is a professor at the University of Western Ontario and holds a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Technology, Culture and Risk. She is known for her work in the fields of labour and gender history as well as the history of technology. [2]

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Career and honours

Parr received her Bachelor of Arts degree from McGill University in 1971 before moving on to graduate school at Yale University, where she received her PhD in 1977. [1] She has taught at several institutions in both Canada and the United States, including Yale, Queen's University, the University of British Columbia, and Simon Fraser University. [3] [4]

Parr has won numerous awards and distinctions over the course of her career. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1992, and in 2000 became the first woman to win the Society's prestigious J. B. Tyrell Historical Medal for outstanding work in the history of Canada. [5] [4] She was the recipient of the 1991 Sir John A. Macdonald Prize (now the CHA Best Scholarly Book in Canadian History Prize) for the best book in Canadian history from the Canadian Historical Association for her book The Gender of Breadwinners, which also won the Association's 1995 François-Xavier Garneau Medal. [6] Her 2010 book Sensing Changes was awarded both the Canada Prize from the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences and the Edelstein Prize from the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT). [7] [8] In 2018, SHOT awarded Parr the Leonardo da Vinci Medal for lifetime achievement, noting that "Parr has played an important role in redefining the field of history of technology internationally, in inspiring a younger generation to engage with the field, and in building a vibrant community in Canada and beyond." [3] Parr is also the namesake for the Joy Parr Envirotech Travel Award from SHOT. [9]

Selected works

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References

  1. 1 2 "Joy Parr". Oxford Reference. Retrieved 12 August 2020.
  2. ↑ "Research in the Faculty of Social Science". www.ssc.uwo.ca. Retrieved 20 July 2020.
  3. 1 2 Sandy Lindsay. "Southampton resident receives prestigious lifetime achievement Award | Saugeen Times" . Retrieved 20 July 2020.
  4. 1 2 "The national nerd's club" . Retrieved 20 July 2020.
  5. ↑ "Fellows | The Royal Society of Canada". rsc-src.ca. Retrieved 20 July 2020.
  6. ↑ "CHA Prizes". cha-shc.ca. Retrieved 20 July 2020.
  7. ↑ "Archives: Canada Prizes". Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences. 7 May 2012. Archived from the original on 21 March 2017. Retrieved 20 July 2020.
  8. ↑ University, Department of Communications and Public Affairs, Western (24 November 2011). "Western News - Parr nabs Edelstein Prize, latest honour for 'Sensing Changes'". Western News. Retrieved 20 July 2020.
  9. ↑ "The Joy Parr Envirotech Travel Award – Envirotech" . Retrieved 20 July 2020.
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